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Walthamstow 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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Birth-Rates, Death-Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the year 1953. Provisional figures based on Quarterly Returns.
| England and Wales. | 160 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London) | 160 Smaller Towns (Resident Population 25,000'50,000 at 1951 Census) | London Adminis trative County. | Walthamstow. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 Home Population | |||||||||||
| Live Births | 15.5 | 17.0 | 15.7 | 17.5 | 12.2 | ||||||
| Still Births | 0.35 | 0.43 | 0.34 | 0.38 | 0.32 | ||||||
| *22.4 | *24.8 | *21.4 | *21.0 | *25.5 | |||||||
| All Causes | 11.4 | 12.2 | 11.3 | 12.5 | 9.9 | ||||||
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | - | - | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | ||||||
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | - | ||||||
| Tuberculosis | 0.20 | 0.24 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.18 | ||||||
| Influenza | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0 18 | ||||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | - | ||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Pneumonia | 0.55 | 0.59 | 0.52 | 0.64 | 0.68 | ||||||
| Notifications (Corrected):- | |||||||||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | - | ||||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1.39 | 1.50 | 1.44 | 1.02 | 2.42 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 3.58 | 3.72 | 3.38 | 3.30 | 5.8 | ||||||
| Diphtheria Erysipelas | 0.01 0.14 | 0.01 0.14 | 0.01 0.13 | 0.00 0.12 | 0.23 | ||||||
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | - | ||||||
| Measles | 12.36 | 11.27 | 12.32 | 8.09 | 8.16 | ||||||
| Pneumonia | 0.84 | 0.92 | 0.76 | 0.73 | 1.01 | ||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) Paralytic | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.05 | ||||||
| Non-Paralytic | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.02 | ||||||
| Food Poisoning | 0.24 | 0.25 | 0.24 | 0.38 | 0.18 | ||||||
| Puerperal pyrexia | *18.23 | *24.33 | *12.46 | *28.61 | *54.96 | ||||||
| Deaths:- | Rates per 1.000 Live Births | ||||||||||
| All causes under 1 year of age Enteritis and Diarrhoea under 2 years of age | f26.8 | 30.8 | 24.3 | 24.8 | 28.2 | ||||||
| 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.7 | |||||||
| A.115 Sepsis of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | Abortion with toxaemia | Uther toxaemias of pregnancy and the puerperium | A.117 Haemorrhage of pregnancy and childbirth | A.118 Abortion without mention of sepsis or toxaemia | A. 119 Abortion with sepsis | A.120 Other complications of | pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | |||||
| A.116 | |||||||||||
| Number of Deaths :- | |||||||||||
| Walthamstow | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | ||||
| England and Wales | 68 | 7 | 166 | 90 | 30 | 39 | 123 | ||||
| Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and stil) Births:- | |||||||||||
| Walthamstow | - | - | - | 0.67 | - | - | 0.67 | ||||
| England and Wales | 0.10 | 0.01 | 024 | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.18 | ||||
| * Per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births, †Per 1,000 related live births. | |||||||||||